ENGAGEMENTWhat is engagement?

Groups• Get yourself into groups of 4

Is this engagement?• http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=413

78&title=Power_Teaching_Critical_Thinking_AMAZING_STUDENT_ENGAGEMENT_

Or is this engagement?• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxPVyieptwA

What is engagement?• Student engagement occurs when "students make a psychological investment in learning. They try

hard to learn what school offers. They take pride not simply in earning the formal indicators of success (grades), but in understanding the material and incorporating or internalizing it in their lives.

• Group 1:• Engagement is when students are actively involved, focused and responsible for their learning in a

safe atmosphere where involvement, sharing and personal connections will ultimately increase their understanding.

• Group 2:• Students are actively involved in the learning process through a variety of experiences (ie.

Personal, hands on, meaningful) in order to reach and end product or to fulfill a personal benefit.• Group 3:• Being actively involved in learning where personal connections are made and the students are

applying what they have learned.• Group 4:• Behaviors that demonstrate enthusiastic, actively-focused, physical and mental involvement in a

task which allows the student to personally discover, create, or apply a concept.• Group 5:• Being motivated to participate in a meaningful process, involving the synthesis of various stimuli,

while investing something of themselves, to make a connection with a concept and promote greater understanding and new thought.

What is your definition of engagement?

•Take 2 minutes and define what student engagement means to you?

Place mat activity

1. Write your definition in your space on the place mat

2. Each person has one minute to define their definition

3. Together you will create a common definition to share with others. (3 minutes)

4. Youngest person at your table will share the definition with the group

Stickees• Think of when you know that students have been

engaged in the learning in your classroom• Write as many (6 -10) of those examples as you can on

the stickees provided (4 minutes)• Share your favorite activity with a partner in your group.

Tell how you knew it was engaging for students. • Share that idea with someone else in the group

• Make another set of stickees – you will need them later.

What factors effect student engagement?

Antonetti’s cube

Get Up and Move• Take your stickees and place on one or more of

Schlechty’s 8 Engaging qualities of work.• When you are finished walk around and read the

strategies.• When I ring the bell

• Find a poster with 4 – 5 others• Read the responses• Discuss the responses

• The teacher with the most experience will share the poster with the large group. Is there anything that needs to be explained?

ABC’s of Engagement• Take your ABC blank sheet and walk around and gather

26 different engagement strategies that you use and some that you would like to use.

• Read over the ABC’s of Engagement

Closure• What is engagement?• What did you like about the activity?• We could take these engagement strategies and place

them in Bloom’s Taxonomy as well.

Were the shoppers engaged?• http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE&feature=related